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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

All indications 40 to show that in a
short time the K. P. & w. and the D. NJ.
s A. will be finished and running trains
to this point. The first place in south
east Ford county to be reached by the
railroads. Everything is very much in
our favor that il Mullenville and Dodge
people take hold Of the matter in the
proper manner we are almost sure of a
branch Of the great Rock Island diverg-
ing from the main line at Mullenville and
making Fonda, Ford to Dodge. The pro-
posed line for the branch of the Rock
Island has features about 1t which COM
mend it far above all the other proposed
lines. few of which We may be permit
ted to mention: LIST. Leaving Mullenville
and diverging northwest to the section
line running on the north side Of Fonda,
1t can run this air line the entire distance
to one mile west of Fonda and be on a
line that will be by Thousands of dollars
easier and cheaper to construct than any
line that can be found, End. 1t will run
through q very fertile country, we'll wa
tered, and in which water can be obtained
much easier than the proposed line south
of us. The fourth line of road is the
north and south road from Concordia to
the southeast. this line will doubtless run
on the north side of the river until nearly
due north of ts, and then cross the river
through the finest gap in the sand, thus
allowing US to have line making for
Ashland and other points in the south
west. We say today that we stand the
best chance of any town in the county of
being the second railroad center to Dodge
City. We are entitled to this by the ad,
vsntages Of our situation, this fact is
growing more apparent every day and
the general public is fast becoming cog
nizent Of the fact and are investigating
all these things with view to making an
early use of these great advantages.-
Fonda Democrat.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

cO-partnership corporation, to obtain q license
therefore and the individual members shall not be
required to have q separate license.
SECTION IN. No license granted shall be assign
able or transferable shall any person or per-
sons. company or corporation be authorized to do
business act under such license but to the per-
son or persons, company or corporation to whom
1t is granted nor shall any license authorize any
nor at any other time than Is therein specified.
SECTION Y. Ordinance No. 81; Ordinance No.
So; Ordinance No. 60; Ordinance No. 81; Ordi-
nance No "a and all other ordinances or parts Of
ordinances in conflict with this ordinance 10 here.
by repealed.
SECTION XI. This ordinance shall take -
and be in force from and after Its publicatI> fect
in the Dodge City TINES. in once
Passed the Council May oath, 1887
Attest: GBO. r. jog
Approved May Path, 1887. IS, City Clerk
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26
Ordinance No. 1874.
Published Nay 18th, 1887.

AN ORDINANCE regulating the uee Of fie streets
by persons constructing new buildings.
Be It ordained by the Mayor and COuncilmen of
city Of Dodge City, Kansas
SECTION I. That all persons engaged in the con.
struction Of any new building or buildings within
the city, ehal have the use Of half the street
or streets fronting on the lot lots so improved
Provided, where parties occupy any portion Of the
street for building materials shall protect the
by building guard or fence around same and place
signal lights on same at night.
SECTION ii. That any person doing business ON
any lot or lots within the fire limits Of said city
ehall have the right to use half the street or
streets adjoining fronting said lot or lots be-
Ing improved, and shall have the right to build or
place thereon temporary frame buildings, and Oc-
cupy the same for business purposes during the
construction of the buildings on said lot or lots
aforesaid, Provided said building or buildings
shall be constructed within q reasonable time
and, provided, further that the Street Committee
shall be the judges Of what is q reasonable time,
and that said buildings shall be removed from the
street within ten days from the time the owner or
occupants thereof is notified by the chairman Of
said committee, 50 to do.
SECTION III. This ordinance shall be in force
on and after its publication, once, in the Dodge
City TINES.
Passed the Council May 18th. 1887.
Attest GEO. F. JONES City Clerk.
Approved May 18th, 1887.
r. w. TARBOX, Mayor.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26
THE WINFIELD ASSEMBLY,

The railroads of the state have granted
0ne-half rates of fare to those attending
the Chatauqua Assembly, which meets in
Island Park. Winfield, June eth, to 18th.
Among the eminent persons who will
participate in the exercises are Senator
HOrr. Chaplain McCabe. Ex-senator
Bruce. Rev. Sam Jones, Governor Martin,
Ex-Governor Anthony, Col. Geo. W.
Balm, Dr.. Henson and many others. The
city Of Winfield 10 noted for the beauty
Of its surrounding. and Island Park is
said to be one Of the finest parks in the
state. Buildings have been erected and
arrangements made for large gathering.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26
WRIGHT WRINKLES.

Thomas Person at the section ! o,,,o
was taken sick Saturday, and hs' - ho
taken to the hospital. at Empc- i.
"i wv no" eioooAJ o. ores are build
ing up a steady and incr) .asinr trade
VIM Hunt now b. Ii. AZ
losses the mail pou' cbes Edwin Kinsev
having resigned
0rS. la' * Davidson was very sick
last week. Tut is reported much better.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26
Ordinance No. 131.
Published May &c, 1851

AN ORDINANCE providing for a business license
tax and to repeal Ordinance No. 81, Ordinance
No. 81, Ordinance No. 81, Ordinance No. 81 and
Ordinance No. "a, of the city of Dodge City.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen OF
the city of Dodge City, Kansas,
SECTION l. That it shall be unlawful for any
person or persons companies or corporations To
engage in any branches of business or industry
within the corporate limits of the city OF Dodge
City set forth in section three of this ordinance,
without first having obtained license therefor,
signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the
Clerk of the City and attested by the seal of said
city.
SECTION II. No license shall be granted under
the provisions of this ordinance by the Mayor I'M
tons having applied for the same shall first have
paid the amount required to the City Treasurer
and filed the receipt therefor with the City Clerk
SECTION Ill. That the license tax on the follw-
ing trades, professions and avOcations be as fol-
lows:
Auctioneers of manufactured goods on the street
per day, $40.
Auction houses per year, 5000
Auctioneers not otherwise mentioned, So
Abstract makers per year, S25.
Artists per year, SIS.
Boarding Houses, per year, 80
Billiard tables for one table per year, SIS.
For each additional table per year, $40.
Banks per year so.
Bowling alley per year SIS.
Butchers per year SO
Brick yards per year, S2o.
Barber shops per year one Chair, %.
Eeach additional chair $3.50.
Blacksmiths, one forge per year, S15.
Each additional forge per year, $40.
Bath houses first tub So.
Bath houses, each additi onal tub $3.50
Cigar and tobacco store per year, S15.
Contractors and builders per year So.
Contractors per year, S25.
Commission merchants per year, SIS.
Concerts per day, s..
Live stock dealers, per year, $40,
Coal yards per year S25.
COnfectfoners per year, ~.
Provided than when party carries on the bus
mess of confectionery in connection wit b any
other business the license tax shall be s. per year.
Corn doctors, (transienr per day, y.
Candy manufacturer, per year, so.
Provided that when party carries on the bus
mess Of candy manufacturing in connection. with
any other business the license tax shall be IS per
year.
Cigar factory, per year, S15.
Circnses, per day. 500.
Doctors, per year, So
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

A paper mailed from this city to Hat
field FEBRUARY 23d reached its destination
May 10Th. 1t made the rounds of almost
all the postoffices in western and south
crn Mansas This is only another in
stance Of the manner in which the postal
service is conducted in Kansas, but there
IL no virtue in kicking. SO the. people
must grin and bear it until such time as
the people can kick this reform admins
tration out.-Garden City Sentinel.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26
Ordinance No. 1873.
Published May 26th, 1851

AN ORDINANCE fixing the salary Of the City
Treasurer.
Be 1t ordained by the Mayor and C0uncilmen Of the
city Of Dodge City, Kansas:
SECTION 1. The City Treasurer shall receive .
salary Of fifty dollars per month.
SECTION ii. All that part Of ordinance No. %,
relating to the salary Of City Treasurer, is hereby
repealed.
and be in force from and after Its publication,
once, in the Dodge City Tones.
Passed the Council May 18th. 1887.
Attest GEO. F. JONES, City Clerk
Approved May 18th, 1887.
r. W. TARBOX, Mayor.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26
Ordinance No. 135.
Published May 18th. 1881. j

AN ORDINANCE to repeal Ordinance No. l0l.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen Of
the city Of Dodge City, Kaness:
SECTION !. That ordinance No. 104, passed June
10Th, A. D.. 1884. and approved June 10th. 1854 en-
titled 'An Ordinance providing for, and rcgula-
ting the building Of sidewalks, and all amend
ments thereto be and the same are hereby repealed
SECTION H. That this ordinance shall Be In
force and take effect from and after it, publication
once in the Dodge City TIN1s.
Passed the Council Nay 18th, 1854.
Attest CSC. r. JOINS, City Clerk.
r. ". TARBox, Ma,c:
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

Petitions have been circulated here du
ring the past few days asking the county
commissioners to call an election to vote
on the proposition of extending aid to the
Rock Island, Dodge City & Denver, and
the Dodge City, Montexuma & Trinidad
railroads Ford Gazette.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

The word boom is all right. 1t fills a
want which cannot be supplied by SUBJ
stitute, but We would like to see some
one coin word or two from the newspa-
per f1ends who cannot write a personal
without :wringing in something about
best girl" and pleasant call LEX.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

A better outlook for an abundant har-
vest never greeted the farmers of south
crn Kansas As We enjoy in our locality at
present Corn is looking exceedingly
well and is growing very rapidly since
last weeks rains have 90 well watered it.
Small grains have never promised better
returns, and likewise everything that our
farmers have put into the ground seems
sufe to return to our husbandmeti a ten
fold harvest. to the glory and upbuilding
Of glorious old Clark. Clark Co. Chief
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

Jesse James, the notorious bandit, is
reported % having turned up in Arizona,
alive and full Of vigor. He proposes by
convincing evidenc to show that his al
legged assassination was a ruse. Our
great men are not passing away as rapidly
% we had hoped.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26
Dentists, (resident) per year, SIS.
Dentists, (transient per day. S.
Druggists, per year, BIS.

Druggists, per year, $25.
Dealers i'll stone, per year, $40.
Dray, CARTS hacks, and other vehicles used for
transporting goods from place to place, per year
Express companies, per year, SIS.
Electric light companies, per year, rs.
Furniture dealers and undertakers per year $2b.
FIGURING mills per year $23
Fruit stalls and lemonade stands per year So
Fur, hide and pelt dealers per year Sis.
Gift enterprises per day 10.
Grocers per year $25.
General merchandise per year $50.
Provided that when any party shall take out .
general merchandise license he shall be exempt
from any other merchandise license tax.
The term, general merchandise, used in this
ordinance shall be construed to mean any place of
business where more than one line Of goods Is kept
IN stock.
Gunsmiths per year So
Hotels, first class, charging 81 per day or up
wards, per year, $50.
Hotels second class, charging loss than 81 per
day, per year SIS.
Hotel runners or solicitors, per year SO
Hackney or livery carriages, per year, $15
Insurance companies, including accident, lie,
fire or marine insurance companies, per year, Ss5.
Ice dealers, per year, $25.
Intelligence offices, per year, So
Insurance agents, per year, $15.
Jewellers, per year, $15.
Livery stable keepers, per year, $25.
Lawyers, per year. $40.
Lumber dealers, per year, 10.
LOcksmiths, per year, $40.
Lunch counter, per year, BIS.
Lung testers, per day, D.
Loan agents. per year, $2o.
Merchants selling one liz
year S25. C of merchandise, pei
Money brokers. per-
MIL SssIIR2 Per e ys.' lar ss''
ditional wagon r year, first wagon SIS, each ad
Muscle tes. so.
Newspar .ers, per day, %.
Omuib- ,ers and publishing houses per year SIS.
Ope' Uses, per year each, SIS, per day, IS.
p IA houses, per year, $50.
Jblic halls, per year, $25.
Peddlers of any description, per day. 8. CThis
shall not apply to any farmer or gardner selling the
produce of His farm-5
ppnotosr"pnis.s, P. year, ei''
no,IGIoi pe. yeai, y. .,, Co., l., .h.-o.d
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p Patent right dealer, per day, $40.
ps,oi ~ ehnot;nn' 1ps III 10y; NO. ve., s,s
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cnmm; .mi"ue 81 p''''"' '''Ae 'e~' 0'' W
Peai es.ate oioners, Pes year. es''
Stock and bond Rii boxers Seee Der wear, 80.
Sauuie anu harness. dealers, per year, w.
Statloners, per year, Slo.
second mana dealers per year, ~. 40.
anu mineral waes 90. .se'"r'es' PsA 's"'' wv
Sha,rs r ,ad A. S OK se"i' e~''
r.rfnr monu t",1;n tn.ts y, .ny exhibition
| to- nav '"""s 1000
Tbbasst-;.o, ,.-,,-,,.,... not under contract.
per day, S.
clude ali dramatic exhibitions of every character
for pay, except scientific ana literary ieSsu. 81,
and entertainments gwen exclusively " INC GU
liens OF TINS city. .sx
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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

A Topeka Judge has decided that it
was the plain duty of the county officer
to oppose the granting Of permits as Wig
orolsly and persistently as he would pros
ec,ite criminal in the interests of the
county, and the result is that there is
considerable opposition in many local
tiles from reputable druggists who want
to sell liquor.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

Arkansas City, Winfield and yelling
ton are having piles of fun ont of the
prospective Santa Fe shops, and they
take turns booming on the strength of
them. Winfield has them this week.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

In some sections of the country the
chinch bugs have put in their appearance
In great numbers, and have already done
considerable mischief to the growing
crops.-Garden CITY Sentinel.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

This year will probably witness the
last of the range business in southeast
Colorado. The settlers are coming in SO
fast, and 90 much land is being fenced
that the range is about destroyed.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

1t 10 said that three foot vein of coal
has been found at Solomon City at depth
of City feet. 1t 10 reported to be camel
coal, the best known.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

Topeka is increasing in population q,
the rate of over 1000 month.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

Columbus and Oswego are shipping
strawberries by the carloads
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

Hutchinson has organized fair asso.
citation with 90, 900 capital.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

A man by the name of Young. who
catie here year ago and located south
east Of the city few miles, said: 1 put
In my wheat and oats the first of March
against the advice Of all MY neighbors,
who said that was crowding the season,
and that it would never come without
faih, etc. But it sptouted and grew full
~ two inches before We had rain. There
was moisture enough in the ground to
keep the grain growing another month.
It beats all I ever saw the way the soil
holds moisture. Courier.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26
ADVERTISING RATES.

Three thousand buildings are said to
be going up in Wichita.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

Talk about Kansas going backward
10 utterly impossible. Its western resour.
ces have scarcely been touched yet.
Millions Of people can find homes and
profitable employment here. There are
millions Of acres of the most productive
soils on earth over which no pillow has
evef passed. There are farms Of thous-
ands of acres whose productive capacity
has never been tested. When these farms
are cut up into forty and twenty acre
tracts. and the labor put upon them that
is given at the east. the production will
sstonish the world. There is little in
ducemeht for capital and labor in the old
er states; the avenues for profitable in
testment of either are all filled. The
young life and energy must come west.
and no place this side of the Mississippi
river is more inviting than Kansas. The
state will move rapidly on in the highway
Of prosperity until every inch Of soil is
made productive Patriot.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-26

When cattle were twenty dollars round
nearly everybody wanted cattle. Now
when they can be had for less than half
that figure. hardly anybody wants cattle
When sheep were three or four dollars
per head. nearly everybody wanted sheep.
When they got down to dollar very few
people wanted them. and those few were
regarded as lunatics. Now that sheep
are going up again. inquiry for them is
on the increase. 1t will be the same way
with cattle. They are offered much be-
low their intrinsic value, and therefore
must 90 higher. Everybody admits this
but for some reason we never heard ex-
planned, they prefer to wait till they 60
up few dollars before they buy. This
10 not true of everybody. Even now, we
know men who are straining their credit
to the last notch in cattle and grass for
them to eat. They will make the money
that somebody else has lost. and will be
called lucky. In this world. luck and
sense are % very intimately blended that
it is hard to draw between them the line
Of demarkation. San Antonio Stockman.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-03-11
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

China has coded to Germany the China
islands off the east coast Of China, opposite
the.estaary of the Tsien-T Tang Kiang.
The latest advices from st. Etienne say
there l04men were entombed in the mine and
that 48 have been recovered and 16 are
dead. .t:s tgsE i ID >#
While the Queen of Spain was riding in
Madrid, on Tuesday, a missile was thrown
at her carriage by a miscreant who dissap-
peared. Mt s#
The Queen of Spain has signed the decree
making 20 per cent. reduction in the ex-
port duties on sugar and tobacco shipped
from Cuba.
The Hungarian parliament has unani-
mously voted the urgency for the special
military credit and referred the matter to
the budget committee without debate.
The first steamer which has made the
passage OF the whole length Of the Suez
canalby aid Of the electric light has just
accomplished the trip, and only took fifteen
hours to do it. 5..s2
The Paris Temps asserts that political
prisoners arrested at Sofia for participation
in the recent revolt, whipped with knouts
during the entire night following their ar
rest; that KaraHeloR is now dying from the
effects; that five officers have already died
from the effects of their punishment. The
Temps says the Bulgarian regents hope
they will succeed by the exercise of such
cruelty in terrifying those meditating rev
olution, and thus prevent new uprisings.
It adds: eve trust Russia will not interfere,
40 they intend soon to proclaim absolute
independence from Bulgaria.
The entire London press sympathize with
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, the retiring chief
secretary for Ireland. and express the hope
that he will eventually be able to resume
his place in political life. The Daily News
says he will receive the sympathy of all
parties. It is impossible not to be struck
with his heroic fortitude in struggling
against an insiduous malady while filing q
toilEome and thankless office. ~ ..
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-03-11
WISCONSIN.

At Eau Claire, Wis, few days since the
four year-old daughter of Peter Rexford
was playing with matches, when her
clothes took fire and she was burned SO
badly about the neck and face that her
recovery is impossible.
A dispatch from Senator Spooner says the
$5O,neo appropriation for public building
at La Crosse, which was attached to the
legislative appropriation bill, has been kept
in the bill and passed after hard fight in
conference. The citizens are very much
pleased.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-03-11
ana when the House clock showed the hour
Of u, that body was adjourned, and the
18th congress ceased to be-
MINNESOTA.
Minnesota News.

Mtnnesota News.
Duluth harbor gets $4,000 appropria-
tion, asstheriver and harbor bill now stands
Three hundred railroad passengers were
snow bound at Bird Island, Mimi, March 2,
no trains having then gone west Of that
point 'sincethe Friday before
State senator r. A. Smith has been chos-
en- by Hhe council Of st. Paul, Mayor 81 that
city for the nnexpired term OF Hon. Ed
mund tlce, ngressHsan elect, resigned.
The Minnesota State Supreme court ssus-
tains the finding Of the district court Ia the
suit q the state University vs. The ST. Paul
Il Northern PacificR r. ID favor Of the
latter. az
The sund1v civil bill, as agreed to- by the
coaferrees OF the House and Senate, con-
tains the fall amount Of $169,OOO asked for
TO complete the Minneapolis public building,
OF further delay.
1t has been stated by the Post Office de-
partment THAT mail service ON the Mime
sofa q Northwestern railroad from Oregon,
ILL.,, to st. Paul would begin March IA. It
Is said that this service will be of great
benefit to st. Paul jebbers and.to the small
towns along the line of the newroad.
The general deficiency bill which failed in
Congress ptained an item directing the
Post Office department. to credit in the ac-
count of @. NJ. Laraway, late postmaster at
Minneapolis, the sum Of $14,35O, being the
value certain postage stamps which were
stolen from the safe in said postof1ce on
July 8, 1885. without the fault or negligence
of said postmaster.
G. n. Wells, the brakeman who gained
such notoriety through his connection with
the terrible Rio disaster, was arrested at
Milwaukee on the charge of carrying con-
cealed weapons. He claims that he bought
the pistol because his life has been threat
ened by several anonymous communica-
tions he has lately received Wells went to
the house of correction for sixty days in de-
fault Of payment of $40 fine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-03-11
IOWA.

At Cherokee, Iowa, on the 3rd; Kennedy's
clothing store, the Kellogg building, stee
and bank, and several other structures were
burned. Loss, $50, 600; insurance, 81, 000
An old couple named Hass, living 1t Shell
Lake, Wis, started to walk five miles to
their home. Becoming exhausted they
spent the night on the prairie, the old man
freezing to death. The wife may recover.
Much apprehension is felt at Sioux City
and all along the Missouri river concerning
the early breakup of the ice. Everything
indicates flood. There is large amount
of snow in the country-more than for
many years. Crossing the ice is now con:
sidered dangerous.